Editor's Note: This article is part of KSAT’s special, "50 Years After The Fall: From Saigon to San Antonio," highlighting how the war in ... President Lyndon B. Johnson knew the Vietnam ...

US President Lyndon B. Johnson has inherited an ongoing crisis in the south-east Asian nation of Vietnam from his predecessor, John F. Kennedy. The crisis involves the spreading of communism from ...

On this day in 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson ... advisers on Vietnam. The White House review occurred shortly after Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara returned from the war zone after ...

Courtesy of the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library. President Johnson briefed reporters and responded to questions on the Vietnam War. He responded to questions on force levels and increased t ...

Vietnam is the stain on Lyndon B. Johnson’s presidency ... summit examines Johnson’s biggest failure. The summit will feature several panel discussions of the war and its aftermath.

Lyndon B. Johnson, the 36th President ... “Overshadowing all of Johnson’s good works, moreover, was the ‘brushfire’ war [in Vietnam] he inherited, which soon began to breed revolt on ...

Paxton's lyrics highlighted the duplicity of then-President Lyndon B. Johnson, who publicly denied escalating the Vietnam War while simultaneously deploying increasing numbers of American soldiers ...

This is certainly true with Lyndon Johnson ... Vietnam? Not really. Though on occasion he could strike notes of measured optimism, he was from the start a somber realist on the war. Two striking ...

Lyndon B. Johnson became the 36th President of ... One of the biggest conflicts happening at the time of his presidency was the Vietnam War. Johnson was not able to reach a peaceful end to the ...

1960: John Kennedy elected President of the United States on November 8, with Lyndon ... Vietnam War policies. He lost the nomination to Johnson's vice president, Hubert Humphrey. GEORGE MCGOVERN (b.

LBJ is a two-part television documentary film about Lyndon B ... Johnson pushed progressive programs like the Civil Rights Act through Congress and won a term as president before the Vietnam War ...

In March 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson was nearly 40 minutes into a speech on the Vietnam War when he closed with a stunning announcement: He would not seek another term. From the Oval Office ...